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You keep ignoring the obvious.
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I grew up in Central Illinois and was always a Cubs fan. I think WGN had a major impact on increased Cubfanship, but I would imagine the bigger population of non Illinois ties to Cub fans would be retired folk who just didn't like watching day time soaps and took comfort in day baseball games on WGN. I would also imagine that some fanship could be handed down through generations because that's who granddad liked. But, I don't really understand why a younger generation nowadays would latch onto the Cubs, since there really aren't nearly as many day games broadcast on WGN.
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The uniform is definitely from '27-'36 era. I'm horrible at looking for photos, so that's the best I have to offer at this time. OMC can probably use his resources to pinpoint the actual player.
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Doesn't really look like Grimm. Dude in the picture looks old enough to be a manager though, which Grimm did in the mid '30's. I can't tell. Maybe it's Babe Herman.
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That style of uniform was used from 1927-1936. Maybe it's Charlie Grimm?
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A great lefty from that generation would be Hippo Vaughn. I'll have to look for some photos of Vaughn.
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That uniform looks more 20's-30's to me
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Think lefty!
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You would be wrong. Look at the glove hand.
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Fielder=Fantastic???????? How many times did you curse his hefty behind in the game threads this year?
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Source It looked to me like he got hurt breaking the huddle. He seemed to get up fine after the play, but didn't go down until after they went into the huddle for the next play. I was watching without sound. I just figured it was cramps. I guess I figured wrong.
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Okay, my guys blew staying under the cap, so Vernon Wells will become a casualty of Fuzzy Logistics roster crunch. It looks like I'm going to go with this: C- Geovany Soto (exempt) 1b- 2b- Alexei Ramirez (exempt) 3b- Alex Gordon (exempt) SS- Stephen Drew (exempt) OF- Jacoby Ellsbury (exempt) OF- Matt Holliday OF- U- Ian Stewart (exempt) SP- Brandon Webb SP- James Shields (exempt) SP- Roy Oswalt For those interested, I have these fantastic players available for draft picks, minor leaguers, etc..... BJ Upton Carlos Pena Vernon Wells Johnny Cueto (exempt) Ubaldo Jimenez (exempt) Carlos Marmol (exempt) Randy Johnson Javier Vasquez Matt Capps Milton Bradley I would also consider trading two of my exempt players in my keeper list above (that are not named James Shields or Geovany Soto) for 1 exempt player.
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Before you go making a bunch of changes, make sure Juan fills you in on the newer rules. Cap is 2000 this year. Players with a minimal amount of at bats may not burn an exemption year. Forgot what the pitcher numbers are, but a batter with less than 50 at bats (or is it plate appearances) in a given season doesn't count as an exemption. Rosters don't need to be pared down until Valentine's Day.
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1750? Ok, I'll take 2000. :oops: You have failed miserably at Negotiation 101.
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Cool. More pushovers, please!
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Chavez Ravine Roll Call: Who's going to games 3 and 4?
BigbadB replied to CaliforniaRaisin's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
Haha. Where have you been? Tailgaiting for Padres games went out the window when they moved to Petco Park. You can still tailgate at Charger games. -
Let's pick someone who is less likely to have the ban hammer dropped on them rather than more likely.
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Chavez Ravine Roll Call: Who's going to games 3 and 4?
BigbadB replied to CaliforniaRaisin's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
Stupid Mets and Brewers. Those 2 games at LA are the only dates I would NOT be able to go to LA to see the games. But, I am fixing on setting up a tv in my little work space for both of those dates. Just gotta bring enough cable and a splitter. :D -
Can't we just ask for the guys who do golf and tennis, so they can whisper the play by play?
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that are taking place on monday and tuesday. and the fantasy week runs monday-sunday...or at least it has every other week in this league's history. i would have guessed neither game counted. Even though I really never agree with Adam about anything, I agree with him here. We don't count games outside of the week of play for anything else, why would we do it now?
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Except that the Dodgers scored at exactly the same rate on the road as at home, which is weird. Notice my previous post where I said "park and division". Petco is the worst park in the league for hitting, and it's the best for pitching. San Francisco is also a better pitcher's park than hitter's park. Colorado didn't play nearly as much as a hitter's park as it has in year's past. That leaves Arizona, where it is typically a good hitter's park unless you are facing Webb, Haren and RJ. Those other NLW parks are why the Dodgers road scoring is sorta in sync with their home park values, IMO.
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The example that came to mind for me recently was the recent high school graduate who rode his motorcycle across the school quad and got sentenced to a year in jail, yet a handful of high schoolers decided to beat a mexican aggraculture worker to within an inch of his life in what was basically a hate crime, and so far, not one kid has gotten anything more than probation.
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I understand where you are coming from. It was really fun watching THIS team all season long. We may not have THIS team next year (minus a few idiots who tried unsuccessfully to ruin our playoff hopes). Maybe it will be a better team, but maybe it will be a worse team. A different team means it won't be THIS team, and I can agree that it kinda sucks in that aspect. But, I don't have time to dwell on that right now. We have playoff games to win right now.
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The Dodgers R/9 and ERA is directly related to the park and division they play in. 81 of their games are played in one of the top 3 worst hitting parks in baseball. In other words, they would have a better average of runs per game if they played just about anywhere else, but their ERA would be worse if they played anywhere else. Just about every year, the Dodgers are among the league leaders in ERA and towards the bottom in runs scored. With that said, I think in a neutral park, the Cubs offense would still be ahead of the Dodgers in runs per game, and they'd be WAY ahead in ERA.
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Week 4: Eagles at Bears, 7:15 central on NBC
BigbadB replied to jersey cubs fan's topic in Other Sports
This is a very accurate portrayal of Orton and Rex.
